Hello there.

Hello there.

I'm Nicole, a user experience designer.

I'm motivated by the potential of design to make life better, piece-by-piece, by making everyday tasks easier and hopefully a little more fun.

I've been involved in designing digital interfaces for 19+ years, as an experience designer, an experience design team lead, a user research lead, and just enough coding to be dangerous at prototyping.

I've worked with brands from multiple business sectors, including...

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What I Do

Interaction Design

I've been working on digital experiences since I was 16. I read, I gather information from users, I use my experience, I explore patterns, I explore what's already been made. Then I make things, I talk to other makers and revise what I've made, I have good hobbies to help me think in new ways, I go back to the users, and I make again.

User Research

The biggest and earliest revelation I've had in all my experience is that design always reaches its highest potential with user involvement and empathy.

I have significant experience leading all kinds of usability investigation efforts and scaling them based on time and money restraints.

I've led:

Field studies

User interviews

Scenario-based testing(state-of-the-art lab style to conference room to field guerrilla-style)

Heuristic evaluations

Accessibility audits & solutions

Card sorts

Focus groups

Surveys

Usage data analysis

Whatever it takes to learn about the users

What Else?

When I started as a designer, we all did our own front-end code. Since then, my job has become more specialized, and I do it much less, but still find it handy for prototyping and working with developers.

Code I know:

HTML

CSS

Javascript

PHP

JSP

Relational database architecture

SQL

A little C++ and Java

I think it's important to be adaptable with tools and software. I love the challenge of finding the best tool for the job and my team and, when it's time for a change, digging into something new.

Tools I use the most today:

Sketch

InVision

Usertesting.com

Tableau

Principle

Keynote

Illustrator

Photoshop

Whiteboards, paper, post-its, etc.

I catch on quickly and like learning new things too. Throw something at me!